Top headline: Capital News Service, 4/2/2020
Bottom headline: Washington Post, 6/11/2022
Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested.
Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon, said Lee White, the police chief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city of about 50,000 near the border with Washington. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said at a news conference.
Many of those arrested were wearing logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.
5/30/2022 update, "Donald Trump: When the looting starts, the shooting starts", starts here.
‘Looting’ Comment From Trump Dates Back to Racial Unrest of the 1960s. (The New York Times, 5/28/2020)
The phrase was used prominently by Walter E. Headley, Miami’s former police chief, in 1967 as he pledged a no-holds-barred response to a Christmas-season outbreak of violent crime in black neighborhoods that had left three people dead in attempted robberies.
Mr. Headley suggested that his department’s tough tactics had kept Miami calm that year, even as race riots were convulsing dozens of other cities and leaving scores dead.
3/18/2020 update starts here.
Photo credit: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Reported in Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism. (The New York Times, 3/18/2020)
Original 3/18/2020 post, "Perhaps this is the reason why Donald Trump is resorting to heavy use of a nativist dog whistle", starts here.
Illustration from The Economist
Related posts:
2020
Remember, folks, Donald Trump is still Donald Trump no matter how he acts. (3/18/2020)
Fighting Coronavirus: Too bad we didn't get that border wall built. (3/16/2020)
Donald Trump blows on the the nativist, "foreign virus" dog whistle. (3/13/2020)
MAGA: The incidents of racism, anti-semitism, and nativism stack up in Trump's America. (3/6/2020)
Pre-2020
Donald Trump: (a) Nativist, (b) racist, (c) ignoramus, (d) all of the preceding. (1/15/2018)
Iowa woman enrobes her nativism with Statue of Liberty reference. (11/1/2016)
Thank you very much, Donald Trump. 11/1/2016)
Please give a warm welcome to our next speaker: Donald Trump. (9/26/2015)
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